The great Romantic composers

Schubert or Rachmaninoff? Wagner or Mendelssohn? It is difficult for inquiring minds to tackle such abundant fields as classical music and opera, covering 10 centuries of history:
there are thousands of composers.
Making a selection of musicians, such as a “top 10” for example, is a difficult and subjective exercise. A musical selection is often the expression of personal preferences or artistic opinions, very interesting but also very different according to critics or musicologists, or simply influenced by the context: will an English composer not be instinctively privileged by an English critic?

For example:
in France, Charles Gounod, a 19th century French composer, is more easily mentioned than the Norwegian Edvard Grieg, who is more recognized in the world.

The information presented below (timeline, top 10, alphabetical index) is absolutely neutral. They are the result of a strictly quantitative analysis, based only on global and independent sources. They were treated without favouring any particular musician or excluding any artist deemed less relevant by elitism, conformism or for any other reason.

Timeline of classical music composers, between 1790 and 1910 (romantic era)

Whoever wants to discover classical music or opera does not always have an experienced music lover, an expert or an educator at his or her side to support and guide him or her in these fields. So : Schubert (Austrian composer) or Rachmaninoff (Russian composer, pianist, and conductor) ? Sibelius (Finnish composer of the late Romantic period) or Grieg (Norwegian composer and pianist) ? However, the knowledge available about musicians is enormous. It was processed to select the 10, 25, 50... most popular composers around the world, for those living or having lived between 1790 and 1910 (romantic era). And this objectively, and for the first time (soClassiQ exclusivity).

Top 10 classical musiccomposers for the years 1790-1910

Who are these greatest composers, the most famous over the 1790-1910 era? The works of these musician have shaped the history of classical music and lyric art. There are those you probably know, or at least by name and the others.

Here are these 10 classical music composers, renowned artists from around the world:

What about the others? 25, 50 or more?

Summarizing to 10 musician names such a wide and diverse field may seem extreme or too simplistic for those who know classical music and lyrical art well, for those who can easily name 50 or more classical music composers. Verdi, Stravinsky, Chopin, Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Rossini...

At this time, soClassiQ has listed more than 18000 composers. So here is a selection of some composers for the romantic era, widely recognized around the world:

Note:

This selection may include highly reputed artists and musicians who have occasionally devoted themselves to classical music and not exclusively.

It may also include composers who have been or are concert performers, some more renowned for their careers than for the work they have left behind.

Some composers to be celebrated very soon

Next month, more than 40 important artists and musicians will be honoured. In July 2020 some of them may celebrate a special anniversary. For others, amateurs and enthusiasts will celebrate the bicentenary of their birth or the fiftieth anniversary of their death for example. Among them, some famous composers: